Altitude ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and archaea in soils of Mount Everest

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 208-217

  He, Ji Zheng ^a   Zhang, Li Mei ^a   Wang, Mu ^b   Prosser, James I ^c   Zheng, Yuan Ming ^a  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b Tibet College of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alpine soil; Ammonia oxidizer; AmoA gene; Community shift; Relative abundance; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; ORGANIC MATTER;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; AMMONIA; BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SOIL ECOSYSTEM; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ALPINE TUNDRA; ALTITUDE; AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOSPIRA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERMAFROST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL MICROFLORA; SOIL PROPERTY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ASIA; EURASIA; HIMALAYAS; KHUMBU HIMAL; MOUNT EVEREST;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NITROSOMONADALES; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOSPIRA;

EID: 70349849845     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2009.00775.x     Document Type: Article

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